University Technology Park at IIT

University Technology Park at IIT (UTP) sits on the south campus of the Illinois Institute of Technology and is 10 minutes south of downtown Chicago. UTP consists of a four-building complex with flexible lab and office space for a wide variety of emerging and established technology-based companies in life sciences, clean technology, food technology and information technology.

The 4-story Technology Business Center is fully occupied and offers space for graduate and second-stage companies. The 19-story IIT Tower has several floors of commercial office space including the IIT Research Institute (IITRI), a leading a pre-clinical, contract research organization for life sciences and the Pritzker Institute of Biomedical Science and Engineering. IIT— in conjunction with Pritzker Institute of Biomedical Science and Engineering, IIT Research Institute (IITRI), National Center for Food Safety and Technology and University Technology Park at IIT—is a top-tier academic university with cutting-edge research and support.

UTP also offers access to a 33,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art incubator that includes 19 wet labs, 9 dry labs and 9 offices. Incubator North & South buildings are occupied by 16 start-up companies. Opened in June 2011, Incubator-South has captured numerous awards for design and adaptive reuse of the historic Mies van der Rohe building it occupies.